Great changes in the countryside

Chapter 577 Preparing for the New Year
Chen Yang was not afraid of jokes, and insisted on sending fifteen catties of rice cakes and five catties of mochi to each family.

Unexpectedly, according to the initial feedback, everyone said it was delicious.

The twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Director Lang took Jia Nantang and Yu Xin to check the safety and fire protection from door to door.

Jia Nantang is the person in charge of this alley, and Yu Xin is the person on duty in this alley this month.

The three of them walked around Chen Yang's house, stood in the yard, and praised the rice cakes and mochi that Chen Yang gave them together, as if they were delicacies from mountains and seas.

Complacent, Chen Yang said to the second and third sisters: "How is it? How is it? Are you convinced?"

The third sister asked, "Brother, why are our rice cakes and mochi delicious?"

Chen Yang asked his second sister, "You don't know either?"

The second sister said: "I admit that it is delicious, but I don't know why it is so delicious."

Director Lang said: "Xiao Chen, tell me quickly, so you don't have to be a fool."

"First of all, more than 80.00% of the rice cakes on the market are made by machines. The machine cakes are too hard to chew, and the main problem is that they don't taste good."

"And those handmade rice cakes are not as good as our rice cakes. Because they are made too sloppily, all the necessary processes are omitted. When they are pounded in the mortar, they are not serious, and they don't want to work hard. .”

"For the rice cakes in our family, when the rice cake powder is cooked in the steamer, we must constantly add cold water into it. This is the biggest trick and the easiest way. Everyone knows it, but it just can't be done, but our grandpa can do it."

"The second reason is that the rice used to make rice cakes is different. Most of the rice cakes on the market today are made of new round-grained rice. And for the sake of profit, they will also add low-priced early rice. Such rice cakes taste different. the scent."

"The rice cakes in our family use old round-grained rice, which is commonly known as Nongken rice. Nongken rice is a kind of late rice, and the yield is not high, so the cost is relatively high. And our grandpa never mixes inferior rice and miscellaneous rice cakes when making rice cakes. Rice, the rice cake made is a fragrance."

"As for our mochi, the same is true. The main ingredient of mochi is glutinous rice, but the mochi sold on the street, glutinous rice accounts for at most 50.00%. And the rice cakes made by our grandpa, the glutinous rice composition will remain at 80.00% above."

Chen Yang concluded: "Let's be honest. It's not how delicious our rice cakes and mochi are, it's because other people's rice cakes and mochi are not delicious, which makes our rice cakes and mochi so delicious." tasty."

This is the truth.

Jia Nantang said: "Xiao Chen, it is also a big thing to talk about a serious matter."

Chen Yang asked: "What important things can we do during the Chinese New Year? Isn't it just eating, drinking and having fun?"

"There are more than 60 families in our alley, and there is an old tradition that has not changed for many years. During the Spring Festival, a party will be held, and the time is set on the first day of the new year."

Chen Yang nodded, "Do as the Romans do. Everyone participates, and my family will definitely not be absent."

Yu Xin said: "The people participating in the party will either put on a show or contribute some souvenirs."

Chen Yang asked with a smile, "What can our family produce? The show should be skipped. It's just that the rice wine, rice cakes and mochi are considered souvenirs?"

Director Lang smiled and said, "What I want is your rice wine and rice cake mochi."

Director Lang's home is also in this alley, so he is qualified to express his opinion.

Yu Xin added: "Xiao Chen, your family is a newcomer. So in addition to contributing souvenirs, there is also a program."

Chen Yang was in a dilemma, "People in our family have no literary talent, can't sing, can't dance, and can't do anything."

Director Lang helped Chen Yang with an idea, "You have special skills, Xiao Chen. You know martial arts, and you can play any number of sets, which are a hundred times more exciting than their singing and dancing."

Chen Yang nodded, "That's the only way."

Jia Nantang reminded: "Xiao Chen, remember the time, it starts at nine o'clock in the morning on the first day of the new year and ends at five o'clock in the afternoon."

Chen Yang asked, "Everyone, where are you?"

Director Lang said: "Next door to my house, on the edge of the alley, the house there is owned by the public. The house has been demolished and rebuilt, and now it is the activity center of the neighborhood committee."

Director Lang, Jia Nantang and Yu Xin came out of Chen Yang's house and went to Mr. Feng's house next door.

For activities like this, Chen Yang usually hides when he can and tries not to participate.

But not anymore.

Man cannot live in a vacuum.

A few days before New Year's Eve, Chen Yang made more than 100 phone calls, and the only content was New Year's greetings.

The rest of the time is for food and drink.

What's rare is that the neighbors get along well, and everyone gives each other things, making the New Year's goods more colorful.

Jia Nantang sent a lot of seafood, including fish, pomfret, sea shrimp, fresh and dried. It turns out that his son-in-law is from the Fisheries Bureau

Feng Qinqin sent a lot of fruit, some fresh and dried, ten boxes in total.She said that it was all issued by the unit. There are no children in her family, and it would rot if she kept it. She asked Chen Yang to help eliminate it.

What Yu Xin sent were freshwater fish, freshwater shrimp, carp, crucian carp, cotton fish, fat head fish, white lotus fish, and so on.

Yu Xin told Chen Yang that his brother-in-law worked for the Taihu Lake Administration, and these were his benefits.

Chen Yang was really worried, the freshwater fish were still alive, and they couldn't eat them again.

The third brother came up with an idea to free up the goldfish pond in the yard.

As a result, the innocent homes of the goldfish were occupied, and several of them died due to "protest".

Among the six neighbors, besides myself, three have sent things.

Director Lang also sent six boxes of snacks and snacks, all of which the little ones love to eat.

Chen Yang's return gifts were always two things, two jars of rice wine and two Huazi cigarettes from each family.

Only two families remained silent, one was Lu Feiyao and the other was Du Zikun.

Jia Nantang was well informed, and he told Chen Yang that Du Zikun sent his son to his grandparents for the New Year, and he didn't know what he was doing.

According to gossip, Du Zikun is in a business partnership with others, and he earned money from the business for the two books he published at his own expense.

Chen Yang scoffed. He didn't like intellectuals going into business at all, especially intellectuals like Du Zikun, who were so lazy.

In Chen Yang's view, Du Zikun didn't have any of the necessary qualities for a businessman.

Jia Nantang also said that Du Zikun's magic dragon never sees the end, and he never planned to participate in the party.

Lu Feiyao and Cheng Shanshan remained silent.

This is normal, it has always been like this in previous years, when everyone has dinner parties, his family will not participate.

After all, Lu Feiyao's parents are abroad, and it is human nature to take the whole family to visit their parents during the holidays.

But according to Jia Nantang's news, not only did the Lu family not go abroad this year, they also signed up for the party.

What Chen Yang didn't expect was that Lu Feiyao sent a gift to Chen Yang's family.

A full six cartons.

When Chen Yang opened it, it was full of barbecued meat.

After thinking about it, Chen Yang smiled.

(End of this chapter)